This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vivian, I so agree with your statement of horse mills and auction horses. However the awful truth is that some of us fall into the cracks and so do the animals. whether it is the newborn gazelle that the lion gets or the horse who is sent to slaughter. I like to hide from this as it is so painful. I.e. turn off the wonderful animal pictures from Africa etc when the killing begins. I have also ceased to be friends with a person who sent her two healthy horses for slaughter.
There are always the people who are driven by greed, i.e. the recent oil raises, or have no sense of life's beauties to begin with. One has to wonder what kinds of beginnings the latter had. I do not think we should be so alarmed by crossbreeding as it occurs everywhere. There are enough people who appreciate the purebreds to keep them going unless there is famine, war etc. There is still an aire of "he is a purebred" that gives us an edge above the cross bred. Not to mention the $$$ It is when someone tries to pass off a crossbred as a pure that we should jump in. Here with this situation of Blonken I sense the latter. Could be wrong. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores
